Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.

A second wife
is hateful to the children of the first;
a viper is not more hateful.

A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought,
exaltation in the changing of the Muses;
I have been versed in the reasonings of men;
but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Time cancels young pain.

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.